West Side Story?

bhodge81 wrote: "I saw the production and was dissapointed. The sound was terrible, the band were all over the place and the lighting was hopeless." Well....I was there and had to sight read that music. Obviously bhodge81 is a musicologist and theatre "critic" with his/her head totally up the preverbial and nothing better to do. The Producer attempted to put on a difficult show with insufficient production time and an amateur cast. Anyone with half a brain could figure out that with all three rehearsals being "dress rehearsals" for the cast's benefit, the music would suffer. Professional presentations of this show spend several WEEKS of musical rehearsal before performance. A proper music rehearsal is for the musicians (and not the cast) where difficult areas can be worked on. The Band did not have any such opportunity to work through the score (Which is perhaps the most difficult theatre score ever written) and did a pretty good job of "sight reading" the parts considering the fact that they got the music the day before or at the first rehearsal. As for the divas, they forgot how the songs went and seemed to get worse with each performance. The Conductor was excellent and the producer owes her a great deal of thanks for her efforts with the music and the cast. West Side Story - Shoe-string Budget Club production ! How brave an undertaking. Musician